Dave Kosak is leaving Blizzard

He has not been a part of WoW’s team in years but like him or hate him he has had a profound impact on Warcraft’s lore. Plus he made the whole “faction favoratism” blog years ago that still applies to WoW now.

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/dave-kosak-hearthstones-lead-mission-designer-is-leaving-blizzard/

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the biggest hit to this game was when kaplan left for overwatch and ghostcrawler left for league of legends

mostly kaplan, he really drove the ‘this must be fun for players’ side of the design leadership

Ion’s team of diablo devs don’t even seem to ask that question, they just create tedious grinds, put a big reward behind extremely high repetition of that grind, and then call it a success when most players did it for lack of any other feasible choice

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He’s been the soul and passion of Hearthstone since Ben Brode, putting a whole lot of personality into the presentation, everyone else has been pretty dull.

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Also…

https://twitter.com/ChrisMetzen/status/1321135051405361159

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Bask in the revisionist history. BASK IN IT!

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It’s so strong you’ll get sun burned in 5 seconds.

I think metzen is summoning the gods to kill off wow read ghostcrawler was headed to the door at lol also.

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Bunch of people have been leaving lately from pretty much every part of Blizzard.

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Activision. Dont call them Blizzard. They’re not Blizzard anymore. They are 100% Activision murderers wearing Blizzards skin.

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Kosak is what made Cataclysm what it was. He was also who made Garrosh who he was(along with Christie Golden).

Afrasiabi and Kosak’s conflict in writing affected WoW’s quality.

Now that Afrasiabi is fully in charge and has finished his ideal version of MoP we will probably see what his vision will be without interference from anyone but Fan Complaints!

Activision starting to look like another game developer cough EA cough hack. Anybody remember Westwood?

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We’ve been seeing it for years and it’s awful.

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Guessing he’s gonna go join Metzen? We’ll find out.

I miss the old C&C games.

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Me too. :crying_cat_face:
What they did to Westwood was a crying shame. I loved those games and I loved Earth and Beyond.

Players: “Blizzard, what on Earth was that?”

Activision: “RNG.”

Players: “I’ve never seen RNG do that.”

Activision: “Take RNG.”

Players: Takes Activision’s RNG

Activision: “In RNG.”

Players: Takes RNG in RNG

Activision: “More”

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I wonder if Ghostcrawler will join Mike and the gang at Dreamhaven…

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Im thinking so they are titans when they work together.

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So new slogan. For the Warchief!!!

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No, Ghostcrawler ruined WoW then went onto LoL to ruin LoL. Everyone on LoL hates him.

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